Gilgamesh - The Life of a Poem (discounted) - Michael Schmidt Frances Hodgson Burnett invites the reader on an

invites the reader on an exploration of the writer’s personality

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and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything

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Gilgamesh - The Life of a Poem (discounted) - Michael Schmidt Frances Hodgson Burnett invites the reader on anGilgamesh The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt ISBN 9780691195247 192 page hardback published by Princeton University Press discounted copies in excellent condition *** "[A] wonderful book . . . Schmidts argument for the poem as poetry, in the modern senseconcrete, unglazed, tough on the mindis touching and persuasive. I read the book spellbound, in one sitting." Joan Acocella, New Yorker Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary